Have you ever lost a pricey mobile phone? How difficult was it to claim insurance on such an electronic gadget? Did you get the First Investigation Report (FIR) from police without much hassle? Here is a guest post by Sanjay, my colleague. He narrates the story of his lost N97 mobile and a series of […]
Direct Tax Code draft version 2
Finance ministry has released the second draft of proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC) today, which upon approval will be effective from financial year 2011-12. You can read my initial article on the first draft of DTC if you aren’t aware of this proposal. Let us look at some of the highlights of this draft. It […]
Passport Renewal through Seva Kendra
My passport validity was about to expire in a couple of months and I was thinking of renewing it sometime soon. Very recently got to know about ‘Passport Seva Kendra’ (PSK) through a friend and decided to use this newly launched facility to renew my passport. All the information was available on their website about […]
Go Green Contest Winners
It is time to announce the winners of the ‘Go Green’ contest! This was announced a while back asking my readers to come up with innovative ways under the caption ‘Water Conservation and Efficient Usage‘. Though the response wasn’t great, I am happy to announce that there were 2 entries and declaring both of them […]
Wordless Wednesday – 2
This would be my second post on Wordless Wednesday. Have been caught up with a number of things and hence not so regular on this blog since last 10 days or so! Just to keep you folks updated, lot of things are coming my way and next one month is going to be really hectic. […]